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Two of the biggest companies in the tokenization space are heading toward a legal showdown over intellectual property just as the industry they helped create begins to seriously court institutional in…
What she's saying: Former 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder argues that crypto and traditional finance are talking past each other when it comes to tokenization.
Latest developments: Digital credit products tied to Strategy's bitcoin-backed ecosystem suffered steep declines last week before partially recovering.
The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down from her leadership role, the latest i…
A group of former Ethereum Foundation researchers have started a new nonprofit research and development organization backed by some of ether's largest corporate holders, as the Ethereum ecosystem unde…
Federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital is rolling out infrastructure that allows banks to issue tokenized deposits, joining a growing effort by financial institutions to bring traditional b…
Top U.S. crypto lobbying groups united to ask that the U.S. House of Representatives embrace a bill that gives digital assets miners and recipients of staking rewards an option for deciding when to ta…
MoneyGram said Monday it has become a validator on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, the latest step in the remittance firm's ongoing push into crypto infrastructure as it builds payment services around st…
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Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is leading an OKX and New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) joint venture to build infrastructure to bridge traditional and digital financ…
Bitcoin's mining network is becoming increasingly sensitive to price movements as more miners operate near breakeven levels, according to Wall Street bank JPMorgan.
The largest Ethereum treasury company is still buying ether (ETH) but it has slowed its pace as it nears the goal to accumulate 5% of the second-largest crypto's supply.
Michael Saylor and his embattled Strategy (MSTR) sold more common stock last week, using the proceeds to add a relatively small amount of bitcoin and $300 million in cash to its balance sheet.
The Bank of England officially reversed its controversial proposal to limit how much stablecoin individuals and consumers could hold, bowing to pressure from a U.K. House of Lords committee and the cr…
The pattern is called a bear flag, and a breakdown could send the price of the largest cryptocurrency to as low as $54,000 initially, according to pseudonymous trader Doctor Profit, who called BTC's b…
Despite the green shoots among the majors, the broader market has yet to follow suit. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) remains slightly lower over 24 hours. Still, smaller outliers like DEXE and BEAT jump…
Baillie Gifford, a 118-year-old investment firm based in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, unveiled a fixed-income tokenized fund in association with global custody giant BNY, the companies said on M…
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.
For years, users looking to speed up their transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain relied on a handy optional feature that essentially says, "I might want to replace this transaction with a higher fee.…
Taiko, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that processes transactions off the main chain and settles them back to it, halted block production and told users to pull their funds after an attacker exploited it…
Ethereum’s long-running funding debate has a new proposal: Make validators, who secure the world's leading smart contract blockchain, pay for more of the network’s shared costs.
Bitcoin started the week drifting near $64,000, sitting out a rally in Asian equities as the US and Iran moved closer to a lasting peace deal.
XRP briefly broke below a closely watched support level on Sunday before buyers stepped in.
CME Group filed a lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleging it should not have approved Kalshi's perpetual futures contracts the way it did and asking a court to vacate the app…